Class 4 had a fantastic day on our trip to Gibside!
We spent the morning looking for minibeasts! We used a classification sheet to help us identify what we found️
We then spent the afternoon creating art using nature! We created our own artist palette using natural items before using mud as paint to create our own natural paintings️
What a fantastic afternoon for our Year 1 sports day!
We are so proud of the children for the hard work and resilience they demonstrated throughout every single race! It was so lovely to hear them cheering each other on!
And a huge thank you to all the grown ups for coming along to watch and cheer on the children and of course, getting involved in our adults race!!
As part of our transport topic, we have been exploring Peter Thorpe’s ‘Space Art’. We explored his different paintings of rockets and discussed the colours he used and why we thought he had chosen them. We then created our own rocket paintings
This week Year 1 spent an afternoon with their adults, exploring some wonderful books and sharing some of their favourite stories!!✨
The children loved spending some time with their grown ups and showing them what amazing readers they are!
In Geography, we have been exploring non-European countries. We used iPads to research the country Canada. We found out that…
Canada is in North America
The capital city is Ottawa
Maple syrup is very popular and is usually eaten with bacon and pancakes
Ice hockey is a very popular sport
It is the second largest county in the world
This week we have been learning all about non-fiction texts. We looked at what non-fiction means and features of a non-fiction text. We then explored the book ‘My Bean Diary’ which shows us how broad beans grow from a tiny bean into a plant. We therefore thought it was only right we planted our own beans so that we could watch them grow. We talked about what our beans need to grow and made sure we provided these so the bean could grow. We are so excited to see how they change over the next few weeks!!
This week Year 1 had their Easter evening, where we came back to school with our adults to join in with some wonderful Easter activities. We had so much fun spending time with our adults and doing things like colouring, painting, Easter basket making and even making crispy cakes… which was one of our favourites!!
In PSHE, class 4 have been talking about road safety. We talked about why it is important to be safe near roads and how we can do this. We learnt that when we come to a road, to cross safely we need to;
✋ Stop
Look
Listen
Think
And even had a go at doing this with a road in our classroom!!
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Wriggly Squiggly’ and we were absolutely horrified to find that on Friday, one of the blue monsters from the story had not only been on our playground, but had made a terrible mess! To help us catch the monster, we created wanted posters. We made sure to use lots of descriptive language to describe the monster so other people knew exactly what to look out for!
In Science, we have been looking at the five senses. We talked about what they were, how we use them and which parts of the body are needed for each one. We used our senses to explore the season of Spring, describing what we could see, hear, taste, smell and feel. We then carried out an experiment, using our senses to describe 6 different mystery items, including:
Chocolate
☕️ Coffee beans
Washing up liquid
Yoghurt
Water
Lemon juice
We described their smell, what they looked like and how they felt before guessing what we thought it might be. Of course we identified the chocolate straight away! But some others like the coffee had us stumped!
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